Pub quiz fans, listen up. Here's a question that sports boffins, rock music buffs and, er, students of the latter years of East German communism will all love. What do Supertramp, Bruce Springsteen ...
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After last year's Olympic games, a columnist for CBS Chicago, Dan Bernstein, wrote an article saying that doping is widespread in top-level sprinting. To think otherwise, he wrote, involved creating "...
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Lance Armstong cheated. He took performance-enhancing drugs, which athletes are not supposed to do. And he was duly punished – he was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for l...
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The details of the Lance Armstrong doping case are now emerging and they make for riveting reading, even if they only confirm what had already been suggested. The United States Anti-Doping Agency has ...
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So Dwain Chambers, the brilliant, cocky sprinter who in 2003 was banned for life from competing in Olympic tournaments, will now be allowed to compete in the 2012 Games. This is great news, not only f...
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On a sticky evening in Delhi last October, I saw a miracle at the Commonwealth Games. The Indian women's team, against all the odds, won the 4 x 400m relay. It was like watching the live version of Co...
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